Pictures about space for preschool children

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Drawings about space will help preschool children learn how to hold writing instruments correctly, and will also help develop their imagination and broaden their horizons. There are several artistic techniques that can interest even restless kids. Before classes, adults should prepare all the necessary tools and select pictures to copy.

What you need for drawing

The table lists the basic materials and tools needed for drawing.

Pictures about space for preschool children — To draw, a child will need an album, pencils, and an eraser.

A simple pencil with a hard-soft lead	Required to complete the sketch
Eraser	To remove unnecessary lines.
Sharpener	Pencils, crayons and wax pencils should always be kept sharp.
Set of artistic brushes	The tools must be of different sizes and hardness.
Container for washing brushes	To prevent water from spilling when the glass is touched by your hand, you need to purchase special spill-proof containers with a narrow neck.
Paper	Album sheets and watercolor paper will work.

To draw a beautiful space landscape, you need a base. If the drawing is done with paints, the paper can be pre-painted in dark blue, purple or black. You can use blue and ultramarine paint.

The planets will look good on a background with smooth transitions from dark to light (gradient). You can use colored cardboard as a base.

The leaf shape may be unusual. You can cut out a circle from paper and ask your child to color it so that the white circle turns into the Moon, Earth or any other planet. On the surface of the drawn planet you can depict its inhabitants, as well as plants and unusual spaceships.

Teachers of children's art schools advise using gouache to draw space landscapes. It will allow you to create bright and rich pictures, which in turn will help to interest the child.

You can also color the drawings with wax and colored pencils, as well as felt-tip pens. Works done in such techniques will help older preschoolers train their hand and prepare it for writing. You can combine different coloring methods in 1 drawing. Then the picture will be more interesting.

Drawings about space for children can be created using non-traditional artistic techniques that will help develop fine motor skills, attentiveness, color perception, and imagination.

Examples of developmental drawing techniques:

grattage;
finger painting;
inkblotography;
stencil designs;
drawing with glue;
creating a relief pattern from salt or semolina.

Further in the article you can consider several instructions on how to create drawings on a space theme, made in various artistic techniques.

Finger painting

This style of drawing is suitable for children of preschool age (3 to 5 years). Finger painting helps develop coordination of movements.

For classes, you need special paints that will not cause allergic reactions on children's skin. They can be bought in craft stores. Finger paints are easy to wash off your hands with wet wipes and are easy to wash off clothes without leaving stains.

Adults need to prepare the basis for the drawing:

Tint a sheet of paper black, or use black cardboard as a base.
Take a large brush with hard bristles and fill it with white paint, splash it on the surface of the sheet. Small drops will imitate stars.
You can add some more blue and red splashes.
When the base is dry, use white paint and a thin brush to draw circles that the child will paint over.

How to conduct a lesson with a baby:

Open jars of brightly colored paint.
Tell the child that these are unknown planets that need to be colored. Show the largest circle and ask the child to choose the color it will be colored in.
The child should take some paint on his index finger and start smearing it along the outline of the circle. When there is less paint, you need to take more and continue to paint the planet.
The smaller diameter circles can be made multi-colored. Let the child choose the colors and try to color the rest of the planets.

It is advisable to store such drawings in frames or files. If you fold or twist the paper, the thick layers of paint may crack.

Blotography

Space drawings for children, made in this technique, help develop imagination. Before starting work, you need to wet a sheet of watercolor paper with clean water, using a wide brush with soft bristles.

The surface of the table should be protected from paint splashes with oilcloth. It is advisable to use watercolors, as they spread better.

How to draw:

Invite the child to choose the colors for the future aliens themselves.
Once you have made your choice, dip a medium-sized, soft-bristled brush into one of the colors. There should be enough paint to run off the brush.
Raise the brush above the design at a distance of about 30 cm.
Run your fingers along the bristles of the brush from top to bottom.
A drop of color will fall on the sheet and spread across the paper. You need to wait until the color is slightly absorbed into the paper.
Wash the brush. Take a different color of watercolor. Make another blot in the same way.

Make a new blot of a different color.
Dry the drawing completely.
Use a black marker to draw a silhouette of a planet behind the characters. You can draw unusual plants, craters and volcanoes.
Detail the characters. Here the child should show imagination. You can draw arms, legs, eyes. Draw bows for the alien girls, and ties for the boys.
Fill the empty space in the background with small drawings. These can be spaceships, stars, meteorites.

To make the blobbish aliens look funnier, you can glue on plastic eyes designed for decorating toys. Such eyes are sold in sets in craft stores.

Space Scratch

An entertaining art technique that helps develop hand motor skills. To do this kind of work, you need a set of wax crayons, as well as black gouache and artistic ink. You can scrape out the pictures with toothpicks or old pen rods that are no longer suitable for writing.

How to create space grattage:

A sheet of paper is densely shaded with multi-colored crayons. The strokes can be applied randomly, the main thing is that there are no large gaps between the strokes. The thicker the wax layer, the better.
Mix equal parts of gouache and black ink on a palette. This step is necessary to create a thick black paint that will not roll off the wax layer.
Using a large brush with hard bristles, paint the colored sheet black. If necessary, you can dry the drawing and apply another layer.
Dry the sheet. It is not recommended to use a hair dryer for drying. Hot air can crack the black layer, as the wax will begin to liquefy and flow. Let the paper dry at room temperature.

Using a toothpick or rod, begin to scrape out the silhouettes of planets, satellites and spaceships.
Shade some objects. The strokes should be applied in 1 direction.
The drawings that remain outlines are scraped out again. The lines should be thick and clearly visible.
You can scratch out some stars and falling meteorites.

This style of drawing is suitable for older preschool children (6 years and older). Children can hurt themselves using sharp objects.

Drawing with PVA glue

The space drawing can be given volume using glue. For work you will need 2 sheets of white paper and 1 yellow sheet. You will also need blue and gray gouache, as well as scissors and a simple pencil.

How to make such a drawing:

Using a wide, soft-bristled brush, paint 1 of the white sheets of paper blue. Let the sheet dry.
On another sheet of paper, draw a circle with a simple pencil. For convenience, you can use a compass. If you don’t have such a tool, then you should trace a small saucer on paper.
Cut out the circle.
Make a relief on the surface of the moon. To do this, you need PVA glue in a bottle with a narrow spout. If you don’t have one, you can pour the glue into a container from hydrogen peroxide. Draw several ovals with glue, depicting lunar craters.
Leave the circle with glue to dry.

Cut out several stars from yellow paper.
When the glue on the circle hardens, it needs to be painted gray. The paint should be thick. It is better to use a brush with soft bristles.
Dry the painted circle.
Apply glue to the back of the circle and attach it to the center of the blue-painted sheet.

Glue stars made of yellow paper along the edges of the drawing.

Drawing with Glue and Salt

Space drawings can be embossed. You will need gouache, PVA glue and fine table salt. For children, this drawing technique will help develop fine motor skills and teach them how to paint embossed surfaces correctly.

How to make such a drawing:

Prepare the base by painting the paper dark blue, or take black cardboard.
Apply PVA glue in the form of circles of different diameters.
Give the child some salt and ask him to sprinkle it on the glue spots. Sprinkle generously and quickly so that the glue does not have time to dry.
Leave the paper until the glue dries.
Using a medium-sized brush with hard bristles, take thick paint and paint all the circles. It is advisable to use different colors so that the planets look bright. You need to paint with the brush vertically and using jabbing movements. This way the bristles will penetrate between the grains of salt and paint all the recesses, leaving no gaps. You should move from the center to the contours.
Dry the drawing.

Use a soft-bristled brush to pick up some yellow liquid paint. Place dots of different diameters in a random order, filling the background of the drawing. These dots will imitate stars. By analogy, you can add several white stars.

Drawing with stencils

Space drawings for preschool children can be done using paint, a sponge and cardboard stencils. Adults need to prepare the base and cut out the stencil figures.

How to do it:

Paint a sheet of paper pink. It is advisable to apply all strokes in one direction, for example, diagonally.
Add some blue, purple and orange strokes.
Dry the base.
On white cardboard draw the kennels of a star, a UFO, a comet and an alien.
Cut out the blanks.

How to conduct a lesson with a child:

Add a little water to the paint you have chosen to make it a little thinner.
Show your child how to apply the stencil to the paper and also explain how to apply paint with a sponge.
Take a small foam sponge for washing dishes. Cover the can of paint with it.
Turn the jar upside down to allow the paint to soak into the sponge.
Lightly crush the cup in your hands. There will be a lot of dirt, so you can do the exercises with gloves.
The child should apply paint over each stencil, slightly extending beyond its edges.
Remove the cardboard templates and dry the drawing.

Using gouache and a thin brush, outline the contours of all objects. Draw small details: stars, sparks around the comet, rays of light around the star. Finish drawing the alien's eyes and mouth. Decorate the spaceship.

Solar system, drawing with watercolors and markers

Space drawings for children can be not only fantastic, but also educational. You can study the location of the planets in the solar system and learn their names.

How to do this job:

Using a simple pencil, draw a large circle in the center of the sheet. This will be the sun.
Schematically depict the orbits of all the planets.

Draw the planets.
Paint the background of the sheet with blue watercolors, without touching the circle.
Dry the drawing.
Use a brown-red felt-tip pen to color the first planet from the Sun. This is Mercury. You can make signatures at the bottom using a black felt-tip pen.
The next orbit is Venus. It can be colored with a yellow marker or khaki.
The Earth is in orbit 3. You need to draw the continents. Color the water blue, and the continents with a green and brown felt-tip pen.
Color the planet Mars red.

Next up is Jupiter. It needs to be shaded in stripes using orange and beige markers.
Saturn is in another orbit. It should be blue-gray.
Color uranium blue and its rings gray.
Color Neptune with a blue marker.
You can finish drawing Pluto and paint it gray.

Outline all orbits with a black marker.

Cosmonaut, wax crayon drawing

This is an easy drawing that won't take much time to complete. A great option for restless children.

How to draw:

Place a sheet of paper horizontally on the table.
On the left side of the drawing, draw a round planet.
Complete the continents.
In the first part of the drawing, depict the astronaut. First, you need to draw a round head, then a helmet, and then finish drawing the body and limbs.
Make the astronaut's spacesuit more voluminous. Draw rivets, add gloves.
Use an eraser to remove excess lines.

Draw a smiley face on the astronaut.
Draw a small spaceship on top. Small because it is far away.
Connect the man and the ship with a smooth line.
Color the water on Earth blue. Color the background behind the astronaut, as well as the glass of his helmet.
Use green chalk to color the continents on the planet, as well as the spacesuit helmet and some parts of the ship.
Use yellow chalk to draw spots on the continents and color the astronaut's gloves.
Use orange chalk to color the man's suit and the remaining parts of the spaceship.

Trace the outline of the drawing with a black marker. Highlight the person's face.

Comet, acrylic painting

This type of design can be done with acrylic paints using a brush, or you can apply special paints with your fingers.

Procedure:

Paint the sheet with dark purple paint.
Dry the drawing.
Dilute white paint with water and apply several vertical strokes to the center of the drawing.
When the paint is dry, load a stiff-bristled brush with white paint and spray it over the surface of the sheet, running your finger along the bristles from bottom to top.

Dry the paper again.
Draw a small ball with red paint. This is a comet.
Draw its tail on top. The further it is from the comet, the wider it is.
Without waiting for the red color to dry, apply a few yellow strokes to imitate flames.

Make some yellow and orange splashes around the comet. They will imitate sparks and small burning fragments.

Tips for young artists and their parents

Artistic secrets you need to know:

Scratching can be done in black and white if you use candle paraffin instead of wax crayons.

To create a relief pattern, you can use not only salt, but also semolina or fine sand.
Finger painting with preschool children can be done in the bathroom. Paint is easier to wash off tiles than carpet.
To finish drawing an object on a dark background in blue or purple, it must first be painted over with white paint. The color can only be applied after it dries. This way, the finished element of the drawing will not blend in with the general background.

Drawings about space can be created using different artistic techniques. The main thing is that the drawing style is appropriate for the child's age. Small children should not be allowed to use sharp objects and sharpened pencils without adult supervision.

Author: Frolova Ekaterina

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